Lush Caves

Lush Caves

Structures	Mineshaft Stronghold Trial Chambers
Features	Amethyst geode Monster room
Blocks	Oak Log Azalea Leaves Flowering Azalea Leaves Azalea Flowering Azalea Rooted Dirt Hanging Roots Moss Block Moss Carpet Grass Tall Grass Vines Water Clay Small Dripleaf Big Dripleaf Cave Vines Spore Blossom Glow Berries
Climate
Temperature	0.5‌ 0.9‌
Downfall	0.5‌ 0.0‌
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#8EB971‌  #B9B75B‌
Foliage color	#71A74D‌  #A6A432‌
Water color	#3F76E4‌  #44AFF5‌

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Lush caves are temperate Overworld cave biomes with unique fauna and flora and are found underground below humid biomes, indicated above ground by azalea trees.

Description

Azalea trees generate on any empty space above a lush cave, with roots consisting of rooted dirt and hanging roots that generate down until reaching the lush cave. This is most common at the surface, but they can sometimes generate inside caves if there is enough room.

Underground, moss and ores cover the floors and ceilings, along with moss carpets, grass, and azalea bushes on the floors. On the ceiling, vines and cave vines with glow berries grow down and light up the caves, and spore blossoms grow from the ceiling and drip water particles. Dripleaf plants grow up from shallow lakes lined with clay, which sometimes generate dry. Water can also generate here in the form of springs.

Players cannot spawn in a lush caves biome during world generation.

Generation

Lush caves generate underground at any altitude. They favor generating underneath biomes with high humidity values (H=3,4), which makes them most commonly found beneath dark forests, jungles, old growth taigas, wooded badlands, and taigas at temperatures of -0.450 and below, but may also generate under windswept forests, mangrove swamps, birch forests, taigas at temperatures of -0.150 to -0.450 and snowy taigas. Dark forests, old growth taigas, bamboo jungles, wooded badlands, and taigas at temperatures of -0.450 and below are almost guaranteed to have lush caves generate below them, but when these biomes generate far inland, dripstone caves may generate underneath them instead.

It is not possible for lush caves to generate beneath forests and grassland biomes like plains and savanna as they are not humid enough.

Lush caves can sometimes generate beneath oceans, deserts, and mushroom fields, whose generation is independent of humidity values. They are also the only underground biome capable of generating beneath oceans and mushroom fields.

Forests, flower forests, and cherry groves are the only forested biomes where lush caves do not generate at all, and deserts are the only non-forested biomes where lush caves can generate.

Mobs

Bats, glow squid, tropical fish, and axolotls are the only passive mobs that spawn, with the latter being exclusive to the biome. While hostile mobs can spawn throughout the biome, many areas have a light level greater than 0 due to the pervasive glow berries. Most hostile mobs are therefore found in large caverns more than 10 blocks high and near borders with other cave biomes.

The following mobs are naturally spawned here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Skeleton	100⁄515	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄515	4
Spider	100⁄515	4
Zombie	95⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄515	1
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Axolotl category
Axolotl	1	4–6
Water ambient category
Tropical Fish	1	8
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

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In Bedrock Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄495	1
Slime[note 1]	100⁄495	1
Spider	100⁄495	1
Zombie	95⁄495	2–4
Skeleton	80⁄495	1–2
Enderman	10⁄495	1–2
Witch	5⁄495	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄495	2–4
Creature category
Glow Squid	1	2–4
Water creature category
Tropical Fish[note 2]	75⁄110	3–5
Tropical Fish[note 2]	25⁄110	1–3
Axolotl	10⁄110	4–6

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Sounds

Music

These music tracks play while the player is in the Lush Caves.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Lush Caves	lush_caves	biome.minecraft.lush_caves

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	lush_caves	187

Video

History

Issues

Issues relating to "Lush Caves" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The Swedish painter John Bauer was one of the main inspirations behind the design and idea of the lush caves biome, specifically Bauer's 'Oskuldens Vandring' (Innocent's Journey) painting.^[3]

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Azalea trees on the surface, indicating the location of the lush caves.
• 
  Entrance of a lush cave, as seen from the side of a mountain.
• 
  A large generation of a lush caves with an aquifer and some springs behind.
• 
  A dripstone cave intersecting a lush cave. An amethyst geode is visible in the background.
• 
  An exposed lush cave in the jagged peaks biome.
• 
  The exposed lush cave from inside the cave.
• 
  A small lush cave, similar to the old cave generation, with a creeper.
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  Lush cave.
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  Tree growing next to a waterfall in lush cave.
• 
  A lush caves biome inside a mineshaft.
• 
  Sunny fighting a spider and baby zombie in a lush cave.
• 
  Zuri and Kai mining ores near a deep lush cave.
• 
  Lush caves.
• 
  Screenshot of a lush caves biome.
• 
  A baby axolotl looking up at the player from in a lush cave.
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  A lush caves single biome world before 1.18.
• 
  The Lush Caves seed template thumbnail.
• 
  A group of axolotls in a lush cave.
• 
  A player swimming with axolotls.

Mojang screenshots

• 
  A lava lake in a lush caves biome.
• 
  Glow vines in a lush cave.
• 
  A lush cave inside a huge ocean cave entrance.
• 
  A waterfall in a lush cave.
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  A dark lush cave.
• 
  X-ray view of lush caves.
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  A lavafall in a lush cave.
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  A lush cave mountain in an old growth taiga.
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  Vegetation in a lush cave.
• 
  An axolotl near a spawn egg in a lush cave.

In other media

• 
  Wallpaper of a lush cave, with a stray fox inside.^[4]
• 
  That same fox with a glow squid.
• 
  A lush cave as it appears in a Minecraft cinematic trailer.^[5]
• 
  Ditto.^[6]
• 
  Alex approaching an amethyst geode while in a lush cave.
• 
  Several frogs playing in a lush cave.^[7]
• 
  Concept art for the cave.
• 
  Officially licensed ornament of a lush cave.
• 
  Blockbreaker9000 texting in a lush cave.

See also

• Amethyst Geode
• Dripstone Caves
• Deep Dark

References

External links

• "Around the Block: Lush Caves" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, December 30, 2021.
• Minecraft: The Great Wild | Lush Caves — Minecraft on YouTube July 14, 2023

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